September 2021

Welcome to our first Parent Council Newsletter of 2021-22!

We hope all your children have had a great start to the new 2021-22 school term! It is hard to believe we have already been back at school for 4 weeks.

The Parent Council had their first meeting on the 6th of September and welcomed our new Head Teacher Mrs McCool to our group.

During 2021-22 Mrs McCool and the school have asked us to raise funds for:

        • more playground equipment

        • new library furniture

Due to the continuing covid-19 restrictions, the Parent Council are not sure if we will be able to hold our usual fundraising discos and similar events this session, so please contact us if you have ANY ideas which we could use to raise money to support the school!!

Our next PC meetings are online on Zoom on:

Monday 04 October at 7pm

Monday 01 November at 7pm

All Parents are very welcome to attend.

Please email us or use our Contact us form and we will send you out the Zoom meeting link just before the meeting.

Please remember that the Parent Council are here to represent you and to bring your views and issues to the school.

If you have anything that you need help with then you can contact us using our online form or email below.

School Car Free Zone

Bankhead Primary School is part of the Glasgow School car free zone. All parents must not enter Broadlie Drive or Caldwell Avenue between:

  • 8:30am and 9:15am

  • and 2:30pm and 3.15pm

If you see issues then you please report to school.

Support your child's mental health and wellbeing by ...

The school are going to set up a new communication App for all parents.

Please keep an eye out for details in you child's school bag!

The school are currently working on what is the best way to talk to parents about their child's learning. We do not think that Parent's Nights can be held as yet. Please contact the school if you have any concerns about your child's learning.

Remember if you or your child have any of the symptoms of Covid-19, we must follow the current restrictions found on the Scottish Goverment website.

Symptoms are:

  • high temperature

  • new, continuous cough

  • a loss of sense of smell or taste

We are hoping to engage more of our parents who do not have English as their first language in the life of the school and the Parent Council. To do this we will be asking for parents to help to translate short documents into as many languages as possible.

If you are able to help then please contact us on bankheadparentcouncilgcc@gmail.com.

GCPG host many events throughout the year aimed at ALL parents within Glasgow. You can watch videos of their previous events on their Youtube Channel.

Remember the specialised forums for parents/carers from GCPG.


You can subscribe to their distribution list for up to date emails about their events (Email: GCParentsGroup@gmail.com) or follow them on Twitter or Facebook.

ALL schools in Glasgow are going to be doing lots of activities related to COP26, so keep an eye out for more information in your child's school bag!!

If you have any ideas about what our school could do then please get in contact!

The Spark have produced free parenting tips and advice for parents, ranging from help with mental health, behaviour and parenting teenagers!

Looking for something to do this Autumn? How about these Witch on the Broom themed resources:

More free resources are available which are aimed at schools, but could still be used at home!

Parents please remember ...

PLEASE be considerate of each other and the school's neighbours while waiting for your children.

Do you regularly shop online?

There is a REALLY, REALLY easy way to help raise funds to support our pupils using easyfundraising.


  1. Register using this link to support Bankhead Parent Council

  2. Download the donation reminder

  3. Or, go through the easyfundraising website to your favourite online shopping websites

  4. Activate the donation each time you shop online

It's that easy ....